Workers Press no. 351

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Tory government INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • WEDNESDAY JANUARY 13, 1971 • NUMBER 351 PRICE 6d (2jp) THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE What Counter Barber's speech reveals we Tory-unions revolution think Kamelson gains speed breaks nis silence on in Jordan Devey affair £1,250 January clash ind Appeal

SPEAKING

night Can

BY ROBERT BLACK

Stands at CLOUDS of smoke hung over €210 Jordanian villages yesterday as the Royalist army continued its offen- He Knew Would have to leave the co

WORKERS

sive against Palestinian guerrilla positions. demonstrations by Observers on the Israeli side of the mark only near yestek frontier report large-scale Jordanian and see with him Hundreds rade tak usands troop movements and the setting-up of road blocks. London building workers marched to Conway Hall for a meeting.

tones Central coo Organizati a hd lepolice Massive Jan 12 Royalist his tory government Uruguay • they remain theN and It be a local poilt erally Feated, opportunises, Proy

BY HICHAEL BANDA

Ramelson. Tories. turn-out: NE manhunt Wall civilans anc Step up TORY CHANCELLOR Anthony hits left 14 rally. ich it is bige factory poses Barber's Birmingham speech on Mon- which it obliged to fight Take balenge laid be wasted. Post STRENGTHENED by its sus- pealed to President Boumedi- day spelt out the counter-revolutionary all your donations to pension or major consutunona rights. the Uruguavan govern.

next step It is a determination of his class.

Workers Press ppeal Fund, ment yesterday sent more thar

MISSION

Looa London 12,000 troops and police into which So far all Boumedienne has They intend to Montevided sour lies leaders of the urban guerrilla

BY A WORKERS PRESS

smash the trade movement, the Tupamoros. drive down shed to 88800S

TEAM

Bahi Ladgham of theory is related living standards and release FULL SUPPORT for the oncine, defy Labourite y for

PRINT WORKERS

Young Socialists' anti- to 'demo- godsen wash Tory Alexandra Palace and at a working-class

CHAPLL

cratically' the rally February Britain since December undo Was

ARMS

5,000-strong reactionary Tory legis- NE the weit the test orbers

EXPENDITURE

lation in parliament. To Mide Fast ever c during yesterday's Lahore under

CAUSES

trywide Sarber told the birmingna demonstratons Chamber of Commerci against the Industrial Re-

INFLATION

army rule same time, we ash. Everybody knows that when it 1 ne or of the ratesmai lations Bill. the not closel Pakistan's second hared fed

LAHUKE

nation to prove city, is bender in the pitical mead one striale after Iberation vent of an eat e militancy paper workers and police in the loes not pay. and the Arab and Israeli CP ellie passer By pole had ailed to vat orone what to do and who to vote the template of its total lack c Reyrolle-Parson's fac- Opposition repeal io ent over i needed he o sacked revolution are in great Alexandra which were endorsed by the mething CASTRO'S leadership Tater canca vents six para neeting to Fleet Street Printworkers on the march yesterday from a friend's Ho parades at six months to two years. demonstrations All-out action Workers absent Explain secret with caus was immediately against Bill warnings talks' demand Satisfy Insteresin Management he British -London call

YOUNG SOCIALISTS

mentioned the case of th to Jones?

RESIGN!

so unreason be not seate 170-949. in STro trom necretary of to

BY A WORKERS PRESS CORRESPONDENT

eaders will satisfy the Tories DOCKERS in Liverpool are to demand an What the present explanation from transport union secretary Jack FEELING FOR all-out industrial action against 195) a or nine years 1540

TORY

MASS RALLY FEBRUARY

PALAC

ones over his secret talks with port employers the Tories was the keynote of many of the about abolition of the national dock labour were stood demonstrations and meetings which took place Wood Green N22 at 11 a.m.

scheme. • 930 for oppor fessional interest in in the London area yesterday.

Worke Soles Satur

BY A WORKERS PRESS

Ford's motor-body

THE

REPORTER

shop motion demanding ry to lea that the executives of all and engineering workers

ALEXANDRA

lovement for other politic at Dagenham. we's tures unions call means-

MAKE

the the union leaders trial action against At WesMiddle Moderate elements in the Relations Industrial mployers Hayed on the unanimously carried class war over the Bill, he said by a meeting of 1,500 car Baltic ports still until the legislation is stopped.

simmering after the defea vorkers' Bote Be Comas centin b An afternoon meeting of 250 Please send • Gierek regime over ore March Disgusting inte Chancellor bluntly All 1,300 dockers in forb lead of the moves Name chester were making 13 ships idlemont sons and work. Address workers

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COLUMN

FREEDONIA is on the edge of revolution and The Marx brothers' 'Duck Soup' the only hope is to bor- вВС 1, Лап. В. row $20m from Mrs Teasdale. But Mrs Teas- dale makes one condi-

THE INDUSTRIAL

tion: that Rufus T. Fire-

RELATIONS BILL

BBC 1, Jan. 10. fly is hired as dictator.

THE COMMON MARKET

'experts' had been paid fees and expenses for return 'trips from Commission is carefully con- Europe, without setting foot in Congo. sidering a month-old report the alleging that £600,000 of a Professor £1.2m aid scheme to the Matt of the montos did ere e Congo was misspent. there few months spent their one-year contracts, and no- The scheme was supposed to did with body knows what they train: staff running the Congo- the rest of their time. and lese transport service, largely put in the hands of a A 'professor', engaged to train German firm, Organization Plan- staff in the buying of provisions, ning and Education Company.

is alleged by the report to have been a grocer trade, and by river transport expert had pre- Experts viously been a disc-jockey.

Schleifenbaum, dismissing Dr Schleifenbaum, head of the Dr says the report is 'an a story that someone listed as a company, teacher' fact evil slander'. 'university 18-year-old another employee's German According to a W daughter, said he thought the the report tells of 1,500 programme had been a success.

Bobie to 20 had been charged for Ten We are sure he is right. All you had to do was to dial IT'S ALMOST a pleasure to 995-6111 and listen to your boss be sacked by Mr Najeeb E explaining how. sorry he was that Halaby, chief executive of you had to go. Pan American World Air- Tearful cluding management staff have just had the The lay-offs, he says, are 'more' to him, than painful' and he experience. pleads with staff for 'understand.

ing of our problems. When the massive 1970 loss led to the decision to sack these Amares, the the al an eople, Halaby worked out how to let them know. troubles, ( the US including ession, the drop in traffic anc Sorry sharp competition about in the pare This tearful plea reminds me of the prize-winning dismissal student of recorded a message and made it letter by manage- ment I heard about. It began: available through the New York "It is hard to lose a friend' telephone service. I would like information about and send to NATIONAL Fill in the form below

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He is hired, and at his sane day te seader. Television and Alied Cine- first cabinet meeting Firefly Television is faced by the Minister of decision General earliet. and Factual' chat taken Labour who shouts: called on te sonke ror andan 'Sir, the workers are demand- BBC's econo ing shorter hours. january it rest one of there Sou 'O.K:, replies Firefly, 'give • chats by repre- mplications. them shorter hours. Cut their lunch hour to 20 minutes!'

might have been for this cool, calm elevision Marx brothers film, on BBC described as Firefly. It was run last Friday (January gramme to

DISTRIC

IN HIS article last week.on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, or Curse?? David Barnes referred to the missed 'Russia torial and the bomb' on British enthusiasm The 13, 1945, August says: Stalinists in 1945 for the use of the Atom-bomb. ward to mot 'Stalinism in Britain', by inconceivable ist world Robert Black gives further interests peace Tory from immediatey he followed hu quotations and press speculations Pollitt to the same effect.

threat fight- this moment reaction Daily Next day, the St cared confidenc *It will enormously increase the the Remember the news of the three strength and in Sover atomic destruction entire all other years city hac stunned the world.

sacrifice and in the struggle and Nagasaki decisions of the Berlin conference August papers, wr policy to beneve that a common quite certain and cont discussed the uestion of whether LO1 that the use of the Atomic hamh bomb will of this use horror weapon has merculy shortened the war had been necessary. litConsequent British Stalinists did did second bomb had their hide Atter bosed to the Soviet Union and to destroyed even editorial elegraph the entire slive of Dally international the lugust 10, 1945, said class Durning give thousands of *Both here and America protests which No wonder tried hard there been have the Soviet leaders a ders one min to cover up their bose as shown in Robert Blacks deserve to be considered against to the Soviet ot the Atomic "Inhumanity tary power of capital and a warn- bomb's creat destrucave Dower. Nagasaki, August 9, 1945.

BY FRANK

CARTWRIGHT

those who are going to have to advised getting together with the work it'. now work to out do the Tories' procedures, i.e., The AEF convenor of stewards work for them voluntarily and Rolls-Royce, Coventry, at once. NALGO district organizer in the SW, a management consultant, one-time industrial relations big- Safer shot at Longbridge and others all made their contributions.

On the right to strike (which The discussion was held as". the Bill removes from everyone though the Bill only has meaning specified by the not union as 'on the shop floor', as though it hability in the high Coper nal having it,! on means nothing beyond there.

But these limits put on the discussion were advised: keep the power to in altered collabora- no way call strikes well up the hierarchy.

tionist and misleading character. Quite-much safer that way.

There was much sociological oyce sunrenor telt the Rolls- chant about 'growth areas' and Royce the Bill conyenor 'the new unionism' and "fail-safe' would lead to a return to the bad situations. There SHow about you Badie? And You days and the NAIGO man stead would redesired brid in- Bill?' from Graham "turner stead the desired bridges altogether it was a commendable between employers and work of display reason and restraint by all concerned and certain to have been useful in confusing few the more workers about of meaning "education'. Dug hole The NALGO man delivered an unwitting refrain of class com- and defeat. Each time he was called upon to comment on a new and more diabolical sec- tion of the Bill he dug the hole deeper. On the registration of unions, with all the legal sanctions plied in that and the equal, but different, implications non- registration, our official's 'incli- nation'-at the moment-is that unions should register. On the agency shop proposals, which will make the present closed shops illegal as well as the existing craft condi- union tions that a job shall only go to already in the someone union,

AEF

convenor spoke about the its 'unsettling effects".

How be felt by a union will certainly quickly be like Tell he ACTT, where control of con- ditions of entry is an essential part of any policy to combat the of mem- immense casualization Groucho Marx bers' working conditions and that in a context of massive un- employment. Actors' Equity is another such people' (another indicative phrase union. that-'work people'). It was left the ex-Long- The

NALGO

representative? He of bridge manager to point out that was in favour stewards the Bill in fact, not a legal working to convert closed shops is. framework, but blueprint for into shops~despite arency the of 'fact' that agency shops also legal intervention. part en- our factual, sociological educa- courage and protect non-member- ship of the union. tion was omitted. It's what the possible 4 Bill About the clauses instituting of the class struggle that is to be legal powers, which will . allow feared and fought. the employer or government to All part of the BBC's service impose procedural agreements on

NAIGO

official. to the Tories—-whatever the par- workers, the

BBC 1

9.15 a.m. Schools. 12.25 p.m. Nai zindag|-naya jeevan. 1.00. Disc a dawn. 1.30 Watch with mother. 1.45-1.53 News and weather. 2.05-2.25 Schools. 4.20 Play school. 4.40 Jackanory.

4.55 Madly sad princess. 5.15 Screen test. 5.44 Magic roundabout. 5.50 News and weather.

NATIONWIDE. London. 6.00 6.45

THE DOCTORS.

7.10

TOM AND JERRY.

7.20 STAR TREK. 'Day of the Dove'.

SOFTLY, SOFTLY-TASK FORCE. 'Company Business'.

8.10 9.00 NINE O'CLOCK NEWS and weather.

SPORTSNIGHT SPECIAL. Amateur boxing, Scotland v England.

9.20

24 HOURS.

10.10 10.45 A COUNTRY WALK. 'Avebury to Stonehenge'.

11.15

SKY AT NIGHT.

"The Approach of Mars'. 11.35 Weather.

REGIONAL BBC

All regions as above except: 4570 Head W. weather. ввс 2 11.00-11.20 a.m.

PLAY SCHOOL.

6.35-7.00 p.m. OPEN UNIVERSITY. 'Arts 1'.

7.05 MAN IN SOCIETY. 'Seeing Is Belleving?'.

7.30 NEWSROOM and weather. 8.00

TIMES REMEMBERED.

MAN ALIVE. 'Black Girls In Search of God'. A Sikh, a Hindu, 8.10 a Muslim. • and a Pentecostal Christian must decide what to accept and what to reject in British society.

PETS AND VETS.

'Birds of Many Colours'. 9.00 9.20 'MEN OF IRON'. Mary Morris, Paul Daneman, Jack Shepherd, Michael Coles, Godfrey Quigley and Georgina Hale.

Story of the first woodhead tunnel, told through three people connected with its building. NEWS ON 2 and weather. 10.55 CRICKET. Australla v England, Fourth Test.

11.00 11.30

LATE NIGHT LINE-UP.

ITV

11.00 a.m.-3.00 p.m. Schools. 3.45 Yoga for health. 4.15 Adventures of Rupert Bear. 4.25 Crossroads. 4.50 The Sooty show. 5.15 Sexton Blake.

5.45 News. 5.55 Today.

6.30 NANNY AND THE PROFESSOR.

7.00

THIS IS YOUR LIFE.

CORONATION STREET.

7.30 8.00

THE CHAMPIONS.

'Prolect Zero'. 9.00 A FAMILY AT WAR. 'Lond Your Loving Arms'.

10.00

NEWS AT TEN.

FATHER, DEAR FATHER. 'Divorce, English Style'.

10.30

PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING.

11.00

WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.

11.45 midnight BEST OF ALL SELLERS. Michael Meech talks to Dr.

12.00 George Caird.

REGIONAL ITV

11.00-3.00 3.55 Puffin. Short Bear. 4.15 $.5525 RunArt News. story. Faith for lose. Pf.s3 Weather.

7.00 hunt.

SOUTHERN:

11.00 r. 3.25 Horos-ope. 3.00-3.20 8.00 Toler the oint. 3.2 Women News.

SUAD

colone today. Houseparty. Wednesday January 13, 1971 ticipants may think the're con- tributing to the TUC's educa- tional process. And once we're all 'educared"", in sufficient depth to be allowed • to oppose the Bill, how shall we do just that? Neither the TUC the programme answered that question. Nor why this Bill is so necessary to this govern- ment. Answer But then Groucho had the answer to that. Firefly turns to his secretary and tells him: "Take a letter to the dentist. "Dear Dentist, I en- close a cheque for $500 in settle- with ment my account ". you... The secretary says. 'Sir shall I enclose a cheque?'. 'You're fired if you do', comes the reply. And at another point an exchange which defines the pre- sent crisis. Firefly turns to the foreign ambassador and asks him lend Freedonia $20m. "Twenty million'; the gasps ambassador, 'I shall have to see my Minister of Finance' but lend me siz til payday: Firefly comes back, • The ambassador looks. scepti- cal. Firefly meets his eye and says: I'll give you my personal note for 90 days. If you haven't got your money back in 90 days—you can keep the note!'

4.12 Wind in the willows. 4.25 Lon- 5.55 Day Crime don. day. desk. 6.30 From bird's eye view. 7.00 London. 8.00 Man in a suitcase. 9.00 London. 10.30 Southern scene. 10.50 News. 11.00 London. 11.45 Weather. It's all yours. HARLECH: 11.00-3.00 London.

Moment of truth. 4.35 Rupert Bear 4.30 London. 5.6. grossroads.

Vest. 6.0] Hawaii five-o. 9.00 don. 11.45 Weather. HTV (West) colour channel 61 above 4.07-4.09, 5.56-6.35 except: Report West. HTV (Wales) colour channel 41 and HTV (Cymru/Wales) black and white service as above except: 5.56-6.16 Y dydd. ANGLIAt 10.58-3.00 London. 3.35 Granny gets the point. 4.00 News. 4.05 Women today ss About Angle. 4.30 Romper room. 4.50 London. 1.00 6.35 Crossroads. London. 8.00 UFO. 9.00 London. 11.45 Your music at night. ATV MIDLANDS: 11.00-3.00 London.

3.10 Housepart 4.00 Peyton Place. 4.30 Horoscope. Women today 4.35 Rupert Bear Fireball XYs. 5.10 London.

today. Police five. 6.35 Crossroads. 7.00 London, 8.00 UFO. 9.00 London.

ULSTER:

11.00-3.00 London. 4.25 Romper room. 4.45 News. 4.50 London. .55 UTV reports. 6.35 Crossroads. '7.00 London. 8.00 Bracken's world. 9.00 London.

YORKSHIRE:

110 Supert dor 1000 Houseparty. 4.10 Bear. Rupert Matinee. 4.50 London. 5.55 Calendar heroes. 7.00 weather. 6.30 Hogan's London. 8.00 Mannix. 9.00 London.

11.45 Weather. London.

GRANADA: 11.00-3.00

4.05 News. Peyton Place. 4.40 Enchanted 4.50 London. 6.01 Newsday. house 5.20 Beverlv hillbillies. 6.50. This is 7.30 London. 8.00 Marcus your right. Welby. 9,00 London. TYNE TEES: 11.00-3.00 London. 3.35 Granny gets the point. 4.00 News. .4.05 London. 8.00 Today at sir 60 oke

8.00 UFO.

London. 11.45 News. 12.00 Four of a

BORDER:

1.38-3.00 London. 3.50 405 Rupert Dear. so London.

News. Dickens. 5.56 Lookaround. 6.30 Horoscope. 6.35 7.00 London. 8.00 Invaders. 9.00 News, weather.

SCOTTISH: 11.00-3.00

London. 4.00 Dateline. 4.10 Rupert Bear. 4.25 Lon- 5.55 Dateline. London. don. Police call. 6.30 Joker's wild. 7.00 8.00 Man in a suitcase. 9.00 London. 10.30 Slent Sport. 11.40 force. 11.00 Late call. 11.45 London. GRAMPIAN: 10.58-3.00 London.

4.05 News. 4.10 Rupert Bear. 4.25 Moment London. 5.55 News, weather. week. 6.35 8.55 Police news. 10.30 London. Room 11.45 Prayers.

new Pirelli struggle Wednesday January 13, 1971

ON-THE-SPOT REPORT BY DAVID BARNES

MILANS

THE SHARP struggle last week in Pirelli's 'Bicocca' plant in Milan when workers struck and forced their Factory Council to come before a mass meeting in the factory, brought workers into head-on collision with the treachery of Stalinism and reform.

ism in their trade unions.

Wage br monts Tor a sem rubber natione of bat inde- cuts spark The rubber workers are bring e chey dains in al seco o national local level. targers of -tab tremain "Prime and right-wing union leaders.

Having decided to pageL o ordinaei natona stop.

e tet soe oon fre lender of

CALT

tories: output. workers blocked of the Pret ae bo tepaed to ao itoh the city, bringir Major role E em oi aniza bate ithout Pte througt hass iona tact relatikery" sich"o the apreotemateledi on of Pere io fust The maln an (e o bronh week nost important (20,00º ercelli. Committee es consestser with elected dele- reng sca td oa tese onteral Commission b ande sr ileoel Bara et % struggle Stalinis-led cCii, Taly s Tar Dinct safety. cables tirelant Socnl Dee Caratted St, and the ve mon, tas le to demand wiss "desins produc- 'rea an d techniques tyr eub ber fesments. 'Delegates' 1 betine Rousht peade rotip fots o Cantianes Bluff the woioes. officials from By rareth anginied of t saatt pap qi cons since 1961 ques or ten nanagement but n a given weel they are not pail The thr widefy uca ad pa two factors inon by tte burea cass-c.

lede sh ont han allal beio with meresy a turcher (amall) cut During last year militancy was An election to the Internal

ONE OF LAST PIB REPORTS CONDONES PRICE RISES, BUT SHOWS-

A maze of mergers leaves two ice-cream WITH ITS dying gasp the Prices and Incomes Board, which winds up in March, sticks strictly to its policy of condemning wage increases and justifying price rises.

The three price increases

FRON BERNARD FRANKS

oi ice cream products occur- ring in 1970 are fully con- in the. PIB's .!Ca n recenl report on the profitability of 'However, they nav the £82.4m industry. us that eof this kind

RETAIL VALUE OF THE ICE CREAM MARKET IS

of mergers and

DIVIDED BETWEEN:

the B Board The maze takeovers the main

SHOPS

amond £49.6 million

MOBILE VANS

outilned in tne 16.2 report is extensive. March and again in May 1970.

cont in

CATERING

'Neilsons

ENTERTAINMENT

7.4 Berged ido ide cream aking excessive interests Lyons Maid was formed and avoid extra £82.4 million existed as a wholly owned sub with the costs ('Coste Prices and Profitabllity in the Ice Cream Manu- Glacler exception of this year's wage W Ita (4 pe facturing Industry". December 1970, HMSO 38.)

claims the that * ine report per cen) and w. D. betweel (15 sold the Maid ise suficient andl va srat- un sres Total Refrigich Thich one tie operators under (2 per cent). consumer good chise rrangemeni Lyons Maid in turn went un cludes Ir Whippy maintains sunsidres in99 and and does a

EXIN(

both main Wals dise caolners tor Bedo sye ser at these two ter through mot tranchise the tact Foods Ltd. mpany, that

SUPPLY CONTRACTS

irms dominate cent of the trade, both ha ve raised prired e,t and "Mister Softee" Luar ice cream Virtually all sales srot Waler es Lta

FORTE MERGER

supply contracts which require Wala of Saileve. 1565 ret:ierg undertake not to stock or Gy the Imperia taken ov brands sidiar m Unileverce Tobacco spccuct Ltd in 1969. perial Co. premises without written con.

cream mobie The Board admits that colla- Hoidings Ltd's Mr Whie forte Forte senthe walis and Lyons are shortotal ort makes links Derweer boranon on nkinc paces would sis of work. undouotealy casy their 50/50 emplanis. aarcicso ih tuc ull

WORKERS PRESS

Y DAVID BARNES

year when the management attempted to bring in Spa in: production. But last Friday two developments brought mat- ters to a head. On Thursday night a serious fire broke out in a tyre-store. Hundreds of night-shift workers • left their meal to help the fire brigade bring it under control, of them being one senously injured when a roof-section col- lapsed. But they found that their assistance being closely was 'supervised' not only by firemen, but by a strong force of riot police. The TV news, echoed by the Milan 'Corriere Sera' della. (Italy's main capitalist daily) implied that the fire was delib- erately started by 'extremists'.

F. Wage cuts This slander was echoed in the tumouts put round by man- alement hirelings on the Fri- day morning. • Then came the news from staff glerks that Pirelli going was ahead with wage cuts of up to half for this month. • * Immediately there were walk- outs in a number of sections.

Workers went to the gates to reinforce the pickets and stop all goods entering or leaving the factory, and some sections voted for the occupation of the plant.

Workers coming onto the sec- ond shift at lunchtime also struck, and most of the factory remained at a standstill. The Factory Council was due to meet in the afternoon, in a building near the factory. the big companies have made considerable efforts to contain costs by mechanization of pro- luction lines and by planning and control of production and stock levels. So much for the claims that consumers can have any influ- ence whatsoever on prices.

To 'shop around' for cheaper products as often as not means ending up with a purchase from the same parent company bought through a different subsidiary. Soon all the companies con- cerned will be raising prices again as 'rounding-up' occurs on Decimalization-Day. The winding-up of the Prices and Incomes Board , is taking place because its opera- tion is inadequate for the pur- poses of the Tory government.

The Tories want an organ- ization which not only. con- dones price rises and recom- mends productivity measures against workers, but one which directly enforces their intro- duction with the full force of the law-through the working of the Commission on Indus- trial Relations and industrial courts. under the terms of the Industrial Relations Bill.

RNES

to bring in Spanish and Grook supples to It opened in chaos, with a number of delegates demanding that they discuss an immediate answer to the management's pro- vocations and that they do so in an open meeting in the fac- tory, where rank-and-file workers could see what was going on.

Internal Commission members this demand, strongly resisted claiming that a meeting in the factory would be 'disorderly and -correctly, as it turned out— that they would be whistled at.

When I asked where the full- time union omicials were, a young worker, Egidio, explained: "They are not here because they know we would tear them apart'.

Then the meeting was invaded by a march of several hundred • workers from the factory, also demanding that the Factory Council meet there. As one of them said: It is a serious thing when we have to "hijack" our own repre- sentatiyes to see what they are doing.' The meeting broke up in con- fusion. Meanwhile a mass meet- ing of about 5,000 formed in the main staff canteen within the factory. In the CGIL offices all was dis- may. Initially Stalinist members of the Internal Commission were against going to the mass meet- ing. They doubted if they could control it and feared that their presence might lend weight to any action which came out of it. One of them, hearing that I was a correspondent from an English newspaper, said: 'You have come at a bad time to understand our unions. We are in front of a crisis. The workers have taken action on their own, and they will tend to be irresponsible.' But within the mass meeting the mechanism of 'responsibility' was already running. • mem- ber of the Internal Commission had taken the microphone and explained that the meeting would discuss action against the wage cuts, but that members of the Factory Council would have priority in speaking. "Talk-in' The atmosphere was tense but Only orderly. notorious 'moderates' were booed or whistled. The advocates of "responsibility' the day won through the simple expedient of a "talk-in', with long repetitive speeches denouncing the man- agement, but proposing no real responsé. The Stalinists, in particular, refusal covered their to fight for class action to defeat Pirelli —which could only mean forcing the provisional and national union chiefs to lead solidarity action among other sections of with talk of taking' workers, the struggle outside the con- fines of the factory', 'giving it breathing-space', etc. Innumerable proposals were made for leafleting (to influence 'public opinion'), approaches to city and local councils, joint demonstrations with Milan's métalworkers (in struggle to enforce their national contract), and so on. Militant delegates and rank- and-file workers demanded big- ger cuts in production and that support from other Milan work- ers should be sought for a picket of the Pirelli skyscraper..

Mario Mosca, a delegate and opponent the Communist Party, put the seriousness of the position: If we lose this battle we shall have the police at the gates every day ready to discipline us.

'We face repression, the same répression which faced the whole of the working class in Italy.'

Laurenti, a CISL militant, sum- up the crisis of leader- med ship: 'Our main target is Pirelli. But then we discovered we must

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also take on the trade unions. Council, And now the Factory which we thought was our own we shall have to put chat aside too.'

MERCURY

•and radiation But the real enemy was outside pollution were the subject of the meeting, the Stalin- among ists and reformist politicians the N three reports from who in the action see, of thẻ American continent last most militant factories, the main obstacle to their policies of weekend. reform and responsible' • indus- Further of trial relations. evidence mercury contamination dis- .in tuna As workers that there the US Food saw closed in and would be lead given they Drug Administration's no ButterinEl began drift and to away the report on its test programme. atmosphere changed of Following the destruction of toxic resignation. nearly million tins of domestic tuna, the agency states 'We're back where we started, that 39 sample cases of Japanese said a from the young worker tuna had been found to have a cable 'but factory, at least have our delegates. I don't know above 'acceptable' what should be done with the The merill to Factory Council - it can only found in fish mercury lead inside the factory. comes from industrial pollution of the and can cause oceans serious damage to the Propaganda human nervous system.

FDA

officials said that the When the meeting had lasted Japanese being removed tuna is over four hours, and was reduced from US supermarkets. Stalinist Japan put provides 90 per cent of all US forward the Council tuna imports-about 14 per cent "policy' - some further cuts in of all tuna consumed in America.

production, a propaganda cam- Further tests on domestic tuna paign aimed at and 'democratic have shown low contamination workers' organizations' (i.e. other levels, according to the report.

sections of the bureaucracy) and out of 367 Only two 'initiatives' sand sics to seek picket No alterna- contained unacceptable levels, Pirelli headquarters. but an FDA spokesman said that tive was, or could, be put.

higher levels are expected when Without larger-sized domestic tuna under- a cadre of Marxists testing later. in the factories devoted go to Meanwhile, the Canadian Fed- and politically defeat- exposing Fisheries Department has ing Stalinism the workers' enor- eral 17 tons of dogfish, confiscated mous will to fight can and will turned by the bureau- scheduled for export to Ger- be aside the fish many, saying that con- cracy. tained dangerous mercury levels.

In the events of last week at The found to con- cargo was Bicocca, Fiat as in and many tain 0.79 ppm of well Canadian other major plants last year the above the ppm safety standard. ssential crisis is that of political leadership and of the burning The of the toxic tuna, issue need for a revolutionary party.

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TNT

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inflation is by bringing about Merseyside and level of pay industrial peace, , but YUl di. industrial vot a statutory wal but combined government and Ine

NOW

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BY STEPHEN JOHNS

tries. acacemic preecom everything that can yield a profit. THOUSANDS of striking workers omitain's entry the surrounded the Tory Party's dock.

Common Market. saesarber. demanded the carrying through land headquarters in Liverpool Women from the Liver of the anti-union laws. 'It would put a premium on yesterday demanding the resig keeping Proper recedure nation of the Heath government.

trade

FORCI

This was the crescendo of a massive and a cos obstruction lasicI 15,000-strong demonstration against the rate economic DrOSTeSs. Mr Barber has said all there government and its anti-union laws. to sav. He has cared the movement to try and labour docker led stop hi he the vernment résign young be stopped and link this with a crowd shoo" chant as ana cand- how? preterday, moot ray

ISIS

outs ce

LOR-

Dalen La Dol servative ames premises covernment was unanimousl like tions and Labour near the city's Pierhead.

passed. the pathetic Only Liverpool Trades Coun- A gain Mersevside workers Party pleadings, proved that they are have the cil stewards prevented a prepared prede to debeat the polit fight politica resolute Witne ent incident and ushered the ions to ould use revoludon- banner-waving demonstrators leadershin anto torce away from the buildings. Loyden, told the call • a eneral this Strike which will topple Hatred reactionary government and proved government working class Will pledged Tory laws This kind respond explosive CanDale and he tor cuts. make UL y hatred against was the government resian road is the typical yesterday's march Now on u the Headershin shortest disaster. which striking годО acting and this for all corial.

forward to print workers, build- ists must be the central issue. once again say Palace rallv 'Only by bringing the tie alexanora ernment down can we defeat Hebruary and the widest together for Bill. noscih e circulation and dic the Charter of cussion mil son Morseside, against Basic Rights! concensus from all the The delegates unanimous Was the TU Sone had far enough, protest Ramelson noW

FROM PAGE ONE

a politica campan to get o of the Tories and replace then with For the second time in five The half-mile column walked anvernment

FROM PAGE ONE

days, 2,800 men and 45 Ships opportunism as to Liverpool Pierhead where were stopped in Hull. of political the Stalinists. has the Southampton docks was at time principles organize a General Strike to a standstill. to develop Marxist ша ( Here

ALL TRADES

we have political there was a strike of the port's why the Great Yarmouth reason STate

UNIONS ALLIANCE

398 dockers canitalist' aroun snuggles un hit by a stay-away of 120

MEETINGS

dockers Defence mittee for the hundred dockers Unions One Trade and Miners and the • three Fife ports stopped work makes any criticism of the policies save rise to Devey.

andon. work stanner Charter of Basic for two hours vesterday after.

have noon for meeting: discuss • From stand point Rights BiT. Some 12,000 men opportunism there attended. basic ditterence between the 2a out strike of 1,300 lighter- 'state Tony capitalists' Cliff and the Stalinists and barker (Ollerton Colliery that's why covering and provincial National

NEWSPAPER

Come to fighting editiong WArA against revolutionary dA avAr and in come races dir Marxists Alexandra Palace! not appear at all as a result of the Socialist about anti-Bill meetings and demon- Legge Force the stratroduction London of the Tories to resign! 'Evening Standard by walk-out affected Printers' Society memhere fol m. Wedned Albert:

WEATHER

WEST

lowed by a mass meeting and march. Distribution of the paper's edition had Derby Rd. prevented by of Graphical involving society and Trades Allied members Rid/seven sisters in the department. arcation An adition of the 'hyenino News' was lost when

SOGAT

members attended an anti- Bill meeting. Already hit sells had al radd been hir by pro- already tests against the Bill. am p.m. Co-op and, 4, January Firet editions of the snail Telegraphi WAre hours late, affecting distribution the W Country, S Wales and E pom. Ruskin House, Coombe R8 parthe Baily i Mirror" g.m. Ri was

TEN

THOUSAND

demon. Bolivian through strated Glasgow the 'Glasgow capital La Paz yesterday sup- Herald' be- appear cause of action by its SOGAT porting President Tuan Torres ACTO Mentos Hall, Peche members. Distribution of the who sauched right-wing military revolt on Monday.

'Daily Record' started late and Many were the Scottish "Daily Express' i made eat on st he

EAST LONDON

lost two best edition of the Glasgow 'Evéning Times'-the

SLOUGH:

Herald's' COlD leaders. armi colone s sister naner_-wac delayed for 75 minutes. Did Ranger and I Edin- Valencia. The "Conteman, burgh experienced slight delav with its second edition. Post ditio Post' lichel by were

BRIEFLY

commando brothers' and token and in Liverpool. 'our fellow citizens called on and car components to recume their dailv lives and workers responded anthiiciac. normal activitv'. CHAIRMAN of the US Joint tically to tha anti Tory chrile • FRANCO'S regime showed an Moorer In Oxford, more than 12,000 Thomas arrived vesterday when for workers closed five British- Dhaam Danh vecterday dictator sacked Lt-Ger Cambodiar pricie tollro with Fernando Cifuentes leaders. another commander Central to the talks will be post the the NLF blocking with of Ph Key Military Divisional Work drive link key Region. Other Leyland plants hit nonte. hit Kompong Som anter port for Lon

FIRE COMPROMISE

more arms Birmingham; Common Tane

DELEGATES

Nol 180.000 strong army Birmingham: Jaguar Coventry and Standard-Triumph. Coven- accepted CLAIM for in- CLAIM for average pay rome 4,000 workers increase cont cent stayed 50.000 two-hour cut in the was fong working sway from Country'e Cheucer white-collar workers in elec- wash nanding an indonendent TIT Alan+ dayity supply industry yester- inquiry into their 10-per-cent Massey - Ferguson's 1,800- strong agricultural machinery at Kilmarnock was also

JORDANIAN

the valentine Palestine officials and Region RAILWAYMEN leadership stayed London's auerrilla from vasterdav awar icchad a inint ctatement calling livernon ctation where 103 assistant {on on and to tha fahting im Aristono drivers were involved. and around Amman. British Rail's Stratford It referred to the 'valiant Tordanian and 'their I freight terminal was also hit.

Wednesday January 13, 1971

WORKERS PRESS

Use strength to

GENERAL

STRIKE

force the Tories to resign - this demand was the message from over 40.000 Oxford trade unionists who struck

TUC

yesterday, aespite pleas. TUC strike Production city's -Leyland worke through Oxford's -Oxford call Hundreds of banners and hon Bill This was emphasized again General Counci compell Way slow to a mas meeting Garages (St. 1 mine, do soreat general Did or po er station worker us It won't end here. We've against *Change

NO MOOD

Dideal the contractors Following theres a large cortingent bour ageneral Pokes SHe withdrawal use us down here. think ducatiebose plea

NO ALTERNATIVE

is Tremendou on a deali seneral Sike Women from the Liverplead seranbe ter pioure of le Leerpool harchompage fileon a march to the Pier have to force the Tories out.

FORCING THE TORIES TO RESIGN

ratern one through • a righ • work Measured fair tactice. that will Six

CHEAP

mIS Push for set sack m cheats be 84,000 big FOR ATTENTED Luton

• MURDER OF

take plenary powers for 'If the working class of this Many of the Oxford demon- country suche today® the

• OUR UNKNS

then st now Dulld the emple wards this end.

• LETS HANG

plants

HEATH GANG

• VU

DVICE DIVISION

stop

INITY ! SAY NO TO RENGTH

SIX car and engineering factories in stopped work for four

FINING OF

nours yesterudy mornine to attend a mass protest

TRADE UNION

meeting against the Bill.

BILL

Five thousand workers

MEMBERS

took part in two separale marches through the lown comorising from Vaux- workers hall's Luton. and Dun. stable Rootes, George DKerco, Nent s and Electrolux. Preparing to let me once for harle the e erton workers have Actors out 10,000 invade in Glasgow A THOUSAND workers took Coventry precinct the A 20,000-STRONG lunchtime meeting chant- Make Labour leaders fight' out! out?' ing "Tories HeathR took over Coventry's central shopping precinct for an hour yesterday. to George Square. -Grantham Trades council and

NOLAWS

Communist Party mem- marchers Eddie McCluskey said from the platform he believed the passing

UNIONS

of the Bill would be the Tory government's downfall. This Bill! Tories out to stop the war in a cal topped fight to chuck sure outsise ory Chrysler hit Lant 3,500 Workers stopped ABOUT five thousand workers dockers, Southampton Eng to marced to the central

SE TOLIES

yesterday Coventry's e • macked with 2t.00l 10,000 e area yesterd reported one nice in the are rhea Tor the All-out halted for day s 10 Atkinson spear havin havin she TU should decides wha

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and General Workers' markets anu- secuon. marted back de the gr T&GWu Bill, Earlier had biend paper representing the eit.

t the Meeting House. may work chers i stewards the shop working das money don Grantham echoes the amus naniness call on de Baited tend public cantee are protested.

WOrk Production of London even-

SWINDON

PUBLIC LECTURE

Elements of

PUBLIC MEETING

Marxism and the struggle against the Tory Marxism government Make the Tories resign! Monday January 18, 8 p.m.

Friday January 15,8 p.m.

OXFORD HOTEL

Co-op Hall, Whitney Chambers, Lecture by Cliff Slaughter Fanshawe Avenue,

DROVE ROAD

(SLL Central Committee member)

BARKING

Speaker: u. Mealy (natonal secretars of the Socialist Labour League) Speaker : G. Healy (national secretar) anary 14, 9.30 p.Mall, Old Market. Thursday of the Socialist Labour League) Adm. Is